It’s not that you shouldn’t eat open mussels, it’s that you shouldn’t eat any that fail to close when tapped. If an open mussel doesn’t close, that means it’s already dead, and will give you food poisoning something fierce.

This is the same guy who couldn’t bear to eat Easter eggs because they had faces. Now something is actually alive, not to mention having a face, and he even says he’s rewarding it. What is up with that?